Isaiah 48:12
Hearken to me, O Jacob, and thou Israel whom I call: I am he, I am the first, and I am the last.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:39See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.
Proverbs 8:32Now therefore, ye children, hear me: Blessed are they that keep my ways.
Isaiah 41:4Who hath wrought and done these things, calling the generations from the beginning? I the Lord, I am the first and the last.
Isaiah 44:1And now hear, O Jacob, my servant, and Israel whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 46:3Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who are carried by my bowels, are borne up by my womb.
Isaiah 51:1Give ear to me, you that follow that which is just, and you that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from which you are dug out.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 48:10-16
Encouragement to God's People. ( b. c. 708.) 9 For my name's sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. 10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 11 For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 12 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am he; I am the first, I also am the last. 13 Mine hand also hath… Read the whole commentary →